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Alan Fish collection
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- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920-1929]
- Collection/Fonds
- Alan Fish collection
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8 x 13 cm
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of one photographic postcard of the North Pacific Lumber Co. Mill at Barnet Village in Burnaby.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [1920-1929]
- Collection/Fonds
- Alan Fish collection
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia postcard ; 8 x 13 cm
- Description Level
- Fonds
- Accession Number
- 2007-04
- Scope and Content
- Fonds consists of one photographic postcard of the North Pacific Lumber Co. Mill at Barnet Village in Burnaby.
- History
- John Lawrence Fish was born in 1904 at Oldham, Lancashire, England. His father, Samuel, first immigrated to Canada 1909, eventually bringing his family to Davie Street, Vancouver in 1919. In 1924, John started working for the Barnet Lumber Company. After working six months at Hanbury Lumber Company in Vancouver in 1926, he came back to the Barnet Mill. In 1927 he began working for the Nichols Chemical plant. Lucy Isabelle Currie was born in Vancouver in 1911 to Harvey and Jane May “Jennie” (Laidlaw) Currie. After graduating from Magee High School, she studied teaching at the Normal School, then went to work at the Compensation Board. In 1942 John and Lucy married at Ryerson Church in Kerrisdale, Vancouver and moved to an apartment at 4095 East Hastings Street in Burnaby. Their daughter, Rosemary Ann Fish, was born in 1943 and their son, Alan John Fish, was born in 1945. In 1947 or 1948 the family of four moved to an apartment at Barnet, followed by a move to a house at Nichols Road. By 1956, they were living in house number 28 on the Nichols property. Alan and Rosemary grew up at Barnet, roaming freely with the other Barnet children around the area of Nichols and the beaches west of the plant. The Fish siblings were taken to school on the Barnet school bus; they attended Rosser Elementary School, Westridge Elementary School, Sperling Elementary School, Kensington Junior High School and Burnaby North High School. As a young adult, Alan worked weekends as a boiler house fireman at the Bestwood shingle mill from 1963 to 1966. He worked at the Nichols Chemical plant from 1966 to 1967. John worked for the Nichol Chemical plant for over 40 years. On November 3, 1968 he was in an accident at the plant from which he suffered first, second and third degree burns. He succumbed to his injuries in hospital on December 16, 1968. Rosemary married Larry Meech. They were living together at Barnet while finishing college when John died. The Meeches then bought a house in Capitol Hill. Alan and Lucy moved to an apartment at Westridge. Lucy passed away in 1974.
- Media Type
- Textual Record
- Creator
- Fish, Alan
- Other Title Information
- Title was changed from Alan Fish fonds to Alan Fish collection to better reflect the nature of the materials.
- Notes
- Photo catalogue 539
The silent readers ; second Reader.
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/museumlibrary3234
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Author
- Lewis, William Dodge, 1870-1960
- Rowland, Albert Lindsay, 1882-
- Gehres, Ethel Maltby, 1885-1973
- Publication Date
- c1924
- Call Number
- 428.6 LEW
- Repository
- Burnaby Village Museum
- Collection
- Special Collection
- Material Type
- Book
- Accession Code
- HV972.195.103
- Call Number
- 428.6 LEW
- Author
- Lewis, William Dodge, 1870-1960
- Rowland, Albert Lindsay, 1882-
- Gehres, Ethel Maltby, 1885-1973
- Contributor
- Richardson, Frederick, 1862-1937
- Prittie, Edwin John
- Place of Publication
- Philadelphia, Mass.
- Publisher
- The John C. Winston Company
- Publication Date
- c1924
- Series
- The Silent Readers
- Physical Description
- ix, 221 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
- Inscription
- "Rosser Avenue School / Rosser Avenue and Pandora Street / Burnaby, B.C." -- Stamped on endpaper (front).
- "S23" -- handwritten and crossed-out in pen on endpaper (front).
- "Barnet School" -- handwritten in pen on flyleaf.
- "VI / G" -- handwritten in pen on flyleaf.
- "S23" -- handwritten and crossed-out in pen on flyleaf.
- Library Subject (LOC)
- Reading (Elementary)
- Notes
- Includes index.